Home from Home Volunteer Assistant
Our Home From Home (HFH) Volunteers make a huge contribution to the success of our Home From Home (Fostering) scheme. Many of our canine residents prefer the stable, comfortable and quiet environment of a foster home to kennels. HFH Volunteer Assistants perform a wide range of administrative tasks help our HFH Co-ordinators find these pups their paw-fect foster home.
What will you be doing?
- Administrative tasks that may include email, telephone, scanning, typing, filing and data entry
- Writing thank you cards and letters for fosterers whose dogs have been adopted
- Transporting our dogs between their foster homes and rehoming centres
- Bringing food, medication, or other equipment to foster homes
- Relaying information related to the dogs and fosterers back to the HFH Co-ordinator
- Creating foster dog profiles to display in the rehoming centre.
We’re looking for someone with:
- A full UK driving license
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- A diplomatic approach to problem-solving
- Ability to work comfortably both in a close-knit team and alone
- Conscientious with a can-do attitude
- Ability to follow instructions.
- An interest in dogs and dog welfare.
- For this role volunteers must be at least 18 years old
What this role will offer you:
We will provide you with a main contact who will manage your tasks, answer any questions you might have and help you with the volunteer rota. You’ll also received ongoing role-specific training, guidance and support as well as an opportunity to gain and develop new skills. We will provide a Dogs trust volunteer uniform, and will recognise the work you are kindly undertaking by enrolling you in our Volunteer Merits Scheme.